On May 3, 2013, at 3:26 PM, Dan Mashal <dan.mas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> So I just wanted to email other intelligent people and see if I was
> crazy or stupid.

Seems specious to me. I haven't seen an implementation like this. It's sorta 
like flipping off your parents to their faces, then 2 seconds later covering 
your hand, rather than flipping them off behind their back. In the former case 
you have a virtual 100% chance of getting caught. In the latter case, you have 
a decent chance of not being caught.

Oh wait, except, right after you cover your hand, you immediately do the same 
exact thing a 2nd time. To their faces. Yeah. I think it's about 100% if 
anyone's remotely paying attention.

The password entry paradigm is in the realm of ridiculous to asinine. But the 
proposed method exposes more of the user password entry than previously. If the 
idea is that it therefore makes the user nervous enough that they become more 
aware of their surroundings, than the false sense of security of immediately 
obscuring password entry, I might buy that this ends up being more effective on 
average. (Most users don't have enemies who can afford to deploy robot flies on 
walls to capture their password entry.)


Chris Murphy
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